Formula 1 had the Schumachers, while the World Rally Championship had the McRaes and, later, the Solbergs.
Today, rallying’s most prominent siblings are so in-tune with one another that they even share the same number of championship points at this stage of the season!
Yohan Rossel has been a permanent fixture in the World Rally Championship throughout the 2020s, establishing himself as one of the top drivers in the Rally2 category. For 2026, he was chosen as one of two drivers to spearhead Lancia’s WRC comeback with the Ypsilon Rally2 HF Integrale.
But his brother, Léo, winning the opening round of the season in Monte Carlo wasn’t part of the script.
Léo, two years Yohan’s junior, took a little longer to reach WRC2, but has immediately made an impact in a Citroën C3 Rally2 – especially on Tarmac. Alongside Monte Carlo victory, he finished second to his brother in Croatia and now gets his hands on the younger Lancia model from next week’s Acropolis Rally Greece.
The French brothers joined Luke Barry on the latest episode of SPIN, The Rally Pod to discuss their relationship, rivalry, humble beginnings in motorsports and ambitious targets for not just 2026, but particularly 2027.
